Hash - The Rafaee Path to Peace

Hash - The Rafaee Path to Peace, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

The Rafaee tradition is of smoking the chillum, and passing it around, because of this they have many hanger ons who are nothing but hardcore dope addicts, getting their smoke free..

They sit at the periphery, they get food from the Bawas too.

The inner circle has rich patron, real loaded cats who give the Bawas free dope and ample money for the upkeep of the Dhuni..

In the evening a few of the Bawas under Barsati Baw go and beg from the shop keepers.

Close by near the Dhuni a goat is tied given by some other patron , it will be sacrificed before the Bawas move out from here to the next venue which is the Dargah of Fakhruddin Shah Baba they will be here for 5 days.

In Feb they will move up the mountains to Haji Malang they have their Asthana known as Rafaee Chowk...

I will wait for Dr Glenn Losack MD and move up with him, the owners of this mountains the Ketkar brothers Abhijeet and Kumarsaab will be our host including Sakib..

All the Hijdas transgender eunuchs will be here in their pomp , grandeur and glory.
Shooting the Rafaee is a high , shooting the hijda is a greater high..

And the greatest of greatest high is Ajmer Sharif..the Land of The Khwaja Gharib Nawaz.. the Domain of Spiritual Peace.

All the malangs, all the rafaees , all the bawas all the sadhus all the hijdas eunuchs and transgender come here to pay obeisance to the greatest Saint of India.Khwajah Moinuddin Chisthy al Sabri..